wish: comments in activity entry

[Christian Roy]

I started using gtimelog yesterday and already love it! Congrats on this great app!

My only wish/suggestion for now would be to be able to include comments in an activity entry, for instance using brackets. Thus, both "project 1 (activity A)" and "project 1 (activity B)" would count in "project 1".

Thanks!

Christian

[Chris Beaven (smileychris)]

Yep, this is something I would appreciate too. The minor difference is that currently I use a colon rather than brackets (e.g. "gtimelog: work on launchpad") but that's an aside.

It'd be great to have these different activities showing the total time for the project on reports. If I had any free time, I'd fix it myself :P

[Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler)]

I too, wants comments although I note that the previously mentioned use-cases are already implemented with the multi-level-keywords. What I want above that, is the ability to add comments in the timelog-txt that do not show up on reports.

My natural reaction would be, since GTimelog is plain-text-based, to imitate many other plain-text commenting systems by using the '#':

09:45 projectX: maintenance # Solved bug114, and 132.

In practice however, I don't care what syntax, as long as I can add comments.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I often say

   projectX: fix blah blah blah bug (bug #1234)

so # wouldn't work as a comment character. And I don't want to drop (bug #1234) from my reports either.

Thinking out loud: some people have expressed a wish for multiple levels of grouping:

  projectX: subprojectY: something something

Perhaps this, combined with an option to collapse lower levels in the reports, would work for you?

There's a reason gtimelog opens reports in an editable Mutt window -- it's so you can clean them up (remove comments, merge accidentally different spellings etc.). I used to have small scripts to parse the "N hour M minute" timestamps on multiple lines and give me a sum in the same format -- I'd select a bunch of lines in vim and filter them through my script, whenever I was coalescing report lines. That script is still in the gtimelog source tree (scripts/sum.py).